{"id":2499239,"date":"2025-10-15T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-contributor-criticizes-pentagon-for-new-press-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:34:36","slug":"fox-news-contributor-criticizes-pentagon-for-new-press-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-contributor-criticizes-pentagon-for-new-press-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News contributor criticizes Pentagon for new press rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffox-news-contributor-criticizes-pentagon-for-new-press-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2499239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-democrats-have-made-milwaukee-a-horrible-city\/\" title=\"Democrats Turn Milwaukee Into a &#039;Horrible&#039; City\">article discusses criticism<\/a> from Fox News contributor and retired General Jack Keane regarding the Pentagon&#8217;s new press policy, which requires journalists to pledge to release only Pentagon-authorized information. If journalists violate the policy or possess unauthorized information, their credentials risk being revoked. Major news outlets, including Fox News and the Washington Examiner, have refused to sign this pledge, viewing it as a restriction on journalistic freedom. War Secretary Pete Hegseth defends the policy, asserting it is indeed necessary for security, but critics argue it amounts to &#8220;spoon-feeding&#8221; information rather than genuine journalism. Additionally, former President Donald Trump suggested possibly relocating White House press briefings after the media rejected similar restrictions. The Pentagon has already scaled back an even stricter policy requiring prior approval of articles.the policy has sparked important pushback from the media as an attempt to control reporting and limit independent journalism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fox News contributor criticizes Pentagon for trying &lsquo;to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murders-violent-crime-fall-in-virginia-report\/\" title=\"Murders, violent crime fall in Virginia: Report\">spoon-feed information<\/a>&rsquo; to media<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2372975\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Fox News contributor and retired Gen. Jack Keane joined Fox News anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3405380\/fox-news-hannity-bret-baier-middle-east-trump-visit\/\">Bre<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3405380\/fox-news-hannity-bret-baier-middle-east-trump-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t Baier<\/a> in bashing the Pentagon for attempting to establish a new press policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8203;&#8203;The Pentagon attempted to force journalists to pledge to only release information expressly authorized by the Pentagon. If journalists violate the policy or possess confidential or unauthorized information, their credentials can be revoked. So far, every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\/\" title=\"News Outlets Issue Major Corrections After Botching Reports On December Phone Call Between Trump, GA Election Investigator\">major news outlet<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3849119\/new-york-times-associated-press-newsmax-pentagon-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denounced the pledge<\/a> rather than sign it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3851863\/michigans-housing-authority-avoids-funding-cuts\/\">Michigan&rsquo;s housing authority avoids funding cuts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3851862\/ohio-physician-assistant-taxes-back-from-covid-19-settlement\/\">Ohio physician assistant wants taxes back from COVID-19 settlement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3850180\/illinois-spending-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants\/\">Illinois spent more on healthcare for illegal immigrants than roads, foster kids, elderly, and the arts &mdash; combined<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>War Secretary Pete Hegseth stood by this new policy and an earlier policy that requires journalists to have an escort when they are in the Pentagon. Hegseth claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >previous practice allowed journalists &#038;ldquo<\/a>;to go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6382755090112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied Hegseth&rsquo;s assertions<\/a> during Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Special Report with Bret Baier<\/em> on Tuesday. This came hours after Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3850008\/trump-floats-moving-press-white-house-media-rejects-pentagon-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also refused<\/a> to sign the pledge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I covered the Pentagon for six and a half years,&rdquo; Baier said. &ldquo;And we knew not to &mdash; you don&rsquo;t walk into the tank and the classified areas are off limits.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are stipulations that essentially are changing the dynamic about how to get information and how they disseminate information,&rdquo; Baier said of the pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Keane, who served as the Army&rsquo;s acting chief of staff and vice chief of staff, said he had &ldquo;never, ever seen&rdquo; a policy like the one Hegseth proposed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What they&rsquo;re really doing, they want to spoon-feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That&rsquo;s not journalism,&rdquo; Keane said. &ldquo;Journalism is going out and finding the story and getting all the facts that support it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3183692&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=8561eb70dddb8f5cf93fe0e5d05c3e9e\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump, in apparent solidarity with Hegseth, suggested he&rsquo;d physically distance White House journalists on Wednesday when it was clear no major outlet would sign on.<\/p>\n<p>The War Department has already walked back an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3840083\/war-department-change-media-reporting-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even stricter press policy<\/a> that would have required journalists to seek approval from the Pentagon on articles before they were published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3850008\/trump-floats-moving-press-white-house-media-rejects-pentagon-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP FLOATS MOVING PRESS OUT OF WHITE HOUSE AFTER MEDIA REJECT PENTAGON RESTRICTIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> also did not sign the pledge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not plan to sign the Pentagon document. The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> does not sign agreements with people we cover in our reporting in any other area, and we do not plan to make an exception in this case. The Department of War will set its rules and we will continue to provide our readers with strong independent news reporting,&rdquo; <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News contributor slams Pentagon&#8217;s media control plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2499240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jack-keane-bret-baier-hegseth-collage-e1760550814154.jpg?1760536592&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32135,5157,33295,3761,65276],"class_list":["post-2499239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fox-news","tag-journalism","tag-media-criticism","tag-pentagon","tag-press-rules"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jack-keane-bret-baier-hegseth-collage-e1760550814154.jpg?1760536592&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499243,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499239\/revisions\/2499243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}